Extensible-slide support por wardrobe-trunks



A., PETRIE.

EXTENSIBLE SLIDE SUPPORT FOR WARDROBE TRUNKS. APPLICATION FILED FEB. n, 1917. RENEWED Nov; 29.1920.

Patented Marys, 1921.

2 SHEETSTSNEET I.

A. PETRIE.

EXTENSIBLE SLIDE SUPPORT FOR WARDROBE TRUNKS. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 17. 1917. RENEWED nov. 29.1920.

1 70,667, Patented Mar. 8, 1921.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

I I I liourren STATES AUGUST PETRIE, or WEST ALLIS, WISCONSIN.

PATENT OFFICE.

EXTENSIBLE-SLIDE SUPPORT FOR WARDROBE-TRUN KS.

Application filed February 17,- 1917, SerialNo. 149,190. Renewed November 29, 1920. Serial No. 427,211.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, AUeUsr PETRIE, a citizen of the United States, residing at the 1 city of West Allis, county of'Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Extensible- Slide supports. for' Wardrobe-Trunks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in extensible slide supports for wardrobe trunks. These slide supports usually com prise sets of telescoping members, one member of each set being secured in fixed relation to the trunk walls, and projecting forwardly from the rear wall thereof,.the other member of each set being supported to slide upon the relatively fixed member, whereby it may be moved to a position within the trunk preparatory, to closing the lid, or to when the lid is open. ying slides have their ends resting upon an extended position exterior'to the trunk The clothes support- 1 these telescoping members, or extensible sets I rial increase in the resistance to the force em of members, and when the trunk is open they may be drawn forwardly to separate the various garments suspended from the respective slides, and to facilitate the removal of'the desired garment from its supporting slide, or with it. a 30 The object of mvinventionis to providea set of slide supports which telescope one within another without forming shoulders against which the slides may catch when being moved forwardly orrearwardly along the supports.

More particularly, my object is to provide ployed to draw them forwardly.

In a companion application filed May 24, 1919, Serial No. 299,477, which is also divisional to this application, I have described a process of manufacturing slide supports, and the claims of this application are therefore directed to the structure.

My invention is further explained by ref- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 8, 1921.

erence to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 represents a transverse section of the upper end of the trunk, drawn on line 11 of Fig. 2, it being understood that such trunk is supported in a vertical position on one end.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section, drawn on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is also a horizontal section, drawn. on line 33 of Fig. 2, looking upwardly.

Fig. 4 is a detail, drawn on line 4--4 of F ig. 5 represents a blank sheet of metal as it appears before it is cut.

Fig. 6 represents the said, sheet after it is cut, and before it is formed into the tubular shape shown in the several figures, and

Fig. 7 shows the devicebent into tubular shape, preparatory for. use.

Like parts are'identified by the same reference numerals"throughout the several views.

6 represents the body of the trunk, which is substantially of ordinary construction. 7 represents the cover which is sccured to the body of the trunk by hinges 8.

tend through thelongitudinal slots 13 of the tubular members 14, whereby said tu bular members 14 are adapted to be moved forwardly and rearwardly while they are in turn supported from said rods 11. A plurality of clothes supporting bars 15 are adapted to be slidably supported from said rods and tubular members, as indicated in Fig. 2, whereby when said tubular members 14 are slid rearwardly the members 15 .are adapted to slide upwardly gradually on the peculiar V-shaped'ends 16 of said tubular member. While if the ends of said tubular members were severed transversely to their lengths, they would be thereby caused to butt squarely against said members 15, whereby said members would be forced rearwardly.

into the trunk, While by providing the front ends of the tubular members 14 with the peculiar V-shaped ends, as shown at 16 they are adapted to readily slide rearwardly be neath the clothes supporting members to, and the liability of said members 15.; being forced rcarwardly by said telescoping members is thereby avoided.

Attention is called to the fact that by the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the rear ends 16 of the telescoping tubes l4, l4 terminate below the lower sides of the rods 1], 11, whereby it impossible for the transversely arranged garment supports 15 to contact with the rear ends of said telescoping tubes 14, but instead said transverse members 15 will not contact with the extrcme ends of said telescoping members at all. but instead said members 15 will be moved forwardly, or the telescoping menr bers Ll will be moved rearwardly until said members 15 move quite a distance past such extreme ends before striking the inclined surface of such ends; this owing to the fact that the rear ends of said telescoping members 14 terminate below their supporting rods 11.

The front or outer ends of the telescoping members are provided with a bracket 17, whereby the liability of said members 15 being accidentally withdrawn therefrom is avoided. Attention is called to the fact that the rear or inner ends otthe rods ll are rigidly secured to the member 9 by screws or other equivalent means 18. while the outer ends of said rods 11 are supported, as shown in Figs. 2 to l inclusive, on the front ends of said member 9 by screws or other equivalent means 12.

The rear or inner ends of the telescoping members 14 are each provided with a stop 19, which is secured in the slot by a plu rality of rivets or screws 20, whereby the for: ward movement of the telescoping members is limited and controlled.

I wish it to be understood that before the tubular member 14 is formed, it is first made in the form shown in Fig. comprising a plain sheet of metal. While it is in the form shown in Fig. 5, the V-shaped notch 6' is out, as shown in rig. 6, when the sheet of metal is curved into the cylindrical shape shown in Fig. 7, as indicated at 1 1. \Vhen the tubular member 14 is formed it is placed upon the rod 11,-as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and F), and the V-shaped recess is formed in,what has been referred to in the claims as the oblique cut. I think that it will be fully understood from the description which has been given.

Having thus described my invention what 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1.. In a device of the described class, the combination with the upper end. of a, trunk, of a U shaped metallic member secured in place by a plurality of screws, a pair of solid rods secured at their inner ends to said U shaped member, a pair of telescoping members, each provided on their lower sides with an elongated slot for the reception of the outer ends of said U shaped member, a pair of stops, one stop located in each of said slots, formed at the inner ends of said telescoping members, a plurality of trans vcrsely arranged clothes supporting bars suspended at their respective ends from said rods, said telescoping members being each provided at their rear ends with oblique cuts terminating at the lower side of their supporting rods, said cuts being adapted to facilitate the entry of said telescoping men bers within the inclosing ends of said supporting bars, as said telescoping members are moved inwardly.

2. An extensible slide support, including the combination of a set of telescoping rods adapted for relative movement one within the other, the outer rod having a cylindrically curved portion within which the inner rod adapted to slide, and also having the end of said cylindrical portion which receives the inner rod beveled in an oblique plane extending downwardl from the upper surface of the outer I'0(, across a horizontal plane which includes the upper surface of the inner rod to form an inclined skidway along which a clothes supporting slide may smoothly move Without catching upon said extremity.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

AUGUST PETRIE.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK W. Noun, 0. C. WEBER. 

